Governing valve-gear for fluid-pressure motors.



0. AJDAWLBY. GOVERNING VALVE GEAR FOR FLUID PRESSURE MOTORS.

. I APPLIGATION FILED JULY 26,1906. 1,042,534. Patented Oct. 29, 191-2.

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GOVERNING Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

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lNVENTOR ATTORNEYS C. A. DAWLEYL GOVERNING VALVE GEAR FOR FLUID PRESSURE MOTORS.

AP'PLIOATION FILED JULY 2a, 1906.

1,042,534. Patented Oct. 29, 1912.

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WITNESSES; INVENTOR @3 4. :s 7Q BY ATTORNEYS 0, A. DAWLEY. VALVE GEAR EOE FLUID PRESSURE MOTORS.

GOVERNING APPLICATION FILED JULY 26,1906. 1 ,042,534 Patented 0013.29, 1912.

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CLARENCE $3.. DA'W'LEY, 0F FLAIETFIELD, JERSEY.

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Application filed July 26, 19%. Serial No. 327,942.

I." 0 all whom it may concern invented certain new and useful -improvementsin Governingvalve tlear for Fluid- Pressure Motors; and I hereby declare the following to lie-a full, clear, and description of the same, such. Willenable others skilled in the ar'tto which it apper- "tains to make and use the'sai'ue.

llly invention relates to improvements in governlng valve gear for fluid pressure motots, and 'coni'prlses nleans for obtai instantaneous control of the'lnotr l means "of a throttling govei'rnor, corn "1 with means f0 adjusting the point of cutoff to permit reopening of the throttle valve with out changing the speed of the'engine.

My invention is particularly inteniled'to be applied to'air compressors,blowing enginesypulnps and the like.

I Will particularly describe my invention herein with reference toits use in air coin pressors, but vish it to be understood that i do not therebj lir'nitth'e uses to which the invention may be put.

In air compressors, it has been found desirable to'usel valve gears which give little or no compression in the steam cylinders, and hence Corliss and other four-valve or Meyer orother riding cutoff gears, are commonly employed. The point of cutoll is in many-cases adjustable by hand, particularly when the llleyer valve gear is employed, the machine being controlled automatically by governing means which limits the speed. and also, usually, slows the machine down it the desired pressure is exceeded. This is acm'nnplished usually by a throttle valve operated jointly by a fly-ball governor and a pressure governor.

Air compressors are usually variable speed machines, and to avoid centering: and stall ing on slow speeds, also to allow or variable steam pressure, the attemle usually run the machines with e crt' --h later than necessary; and in fact, it uemllv found that the enroll is sci" as law. ble to avoid trouble in starting.

There are two important cutoff valves operated'by a shifting eccentric governor or some recognized equivalent thereof, such as a centrifugal governor adjusting the position of the block of Stevenson link valve gear; but it is difto add to any such valve gear, means tor varying th point of cutoff to correspond LC pressure tion, in other words, it is difficult Without treme complication to make any of the ordinary autmiiatio cutoff valve gears involving a shifting eccentric or its equivalent, automatically adjustable according to V2.11 aticns bot-l1 of speed and pressure. It is further a prime requisite that the governor shall be sensitive to small changes in air pressure, and shall be extremely rapid in response to changes in pressure; for sluggishncss in response to such changes in. pressure may result in accident to the maehine and ordinary variable cutoff valve gears ha e not been considered sufficiently responsive to meet this requirement. According :5 my invention, I overcome these ditficulties which heretofore have been presented, by controlling the speedof the englue means a th ottle valveautondatically controlled b a speed governor and, ii desired, automatically controlled by a pres sure go ernor well, and I further provide variable cutofi' valve gear, and fluid-pressure-actuated means operated by ditl'erences in pressure on the two sides of the throttle valve, for adjusting the point of outotl. In such a valve when chzujiges in speed occur or when the desired pressure is ex ceeded, the throttle valve is ad usted instantaneously and immef'rv thereafter the adjustment of tl itoh' begins, the throttle Valve ially opening automatically the r. 'o' s earlier; and by this :nieans l i to marlin the Seine ir lats taneous (on or characteremploy pressure connors now commonly me time I am able 1 points of cutn' n i it! gn'nx'u tr oi the engine both for speed variation-z r- 1' e (:H'lfllions, :ind likeise to adjiusr uiilninziiicnlly the point of cutoff to cor- Fez-tented 29,1912

respond to the conditions under which the machine works; to improve the action of two-eccentric valve gears; and to make the mechanism simple, relatively inexpensive, compact, easy in action, and reliable.

I will now proceed to describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in which certain forms of valve gear embodying said invention are. illustrated, and will then point out the novel features in claims.

In the said drawings: Figure 1 shows a top View and partial section of a tandem air compressor with riding cutoff valve gear, embodying my invention; Fig. 2 shows a valve gear, and Fig. 2' shows adetail front view of'the rocker-arm of said valve gear. Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic and partly sectional view illustrating the relative connections and arrangement of the throttle governor and the fluid-pressure-actuatedmeans for operating the variable cutoff ear. Fig.

4 is a skeleton diagram of the variable cutoff gear shown in Figs. 1 and 2.' Fig. 5 is a diagramillustrating the application of my invention to Corliss valve gears. Fig. 6 is another skeleton dia am of an alternative link valve gear whic may be employed in engines having my governing mechanism. Fig. 7 shows a transverse section of a duplex machine, illustrating means whereby one fluid-pressure-actuated cutofi' chan ing means controls the cut'ofl of both cylin ers; said view. also illustrating an alternative form of said fiuid-pressure-actuated cutoff varying means, and Fig. 8 is-a diagram of the valve gear of Fig. 7.

Referring first to Figs. 1-4 inclusive, 1 designates the steam cylinder of the engine, 2 the compression cylinder, 3 the connectin rod, 4 the crank, 5 the main valve, 6 the ri ing valve, 7 a slotted link pivoted at its lower end to a rocker 8, and 9 and 10 the eccentric rods of: eccentrics 11 and 12 respectively.

13 designates the pipe through which steam or motive fluid is supplied to the engine and 14 is a governing throttle valve arranged to be controlled jointly by a flyball governor 15 and a pressure governor 16, both of familiar construction and acting jointly upon the throttle valve in a manner well known. I

The main steam valve 5 is reeiprocated by means of a valve rod 17 connected to rocker 8, and the movement of this valve is not varied by the governing mechanism. The riding valve 6 reciyn'ocated b means of a valve rod 18 connected to a sliding block in the link 7; andtthe position of this block in the link, and therefore the point of cutoff, is arranged to be varied by 'mcans of a rod 19 actuated by fluid-pressnre-actuatcd means 20, shown in detail in Fig. 3. This fluidpressure-actuated means 20 comprises a fluid pressure cylinder 21 having within it a piston 22 connected to red 19; and the opposite ends of said cylinder 21 are connected by pipes 23 and 24 respectively to the main steam ipe 13 on opposite sides of the throttle va ve 14. In pipes 23 and 24 are included oil reservoirs 25 and 26 respectively which act as dash pots to render gradual the motion of the iston 22 in cylinder 21, and so to regulate the rate of change of cutoff and cause the piston 22 to move smoothly and without fluctuation. I customarily provide pipes 23 and 24 with regulating cocks 27 and 28.

The piston 22 is weighted,having sectional weights 29 suspended from it by means of a yoke 30 (Fig. 2) and I also customarily provide springs 31 acting in the same mannor as the weights and a justable as to ten sion by means of screw nuts 32. The purpose of these springs is to give a gradually increasing resistance as the piston up. By means of these weights and springs the engine is given an initial tendency to run with a cutoff later than'would be required to give the desired speed with the throttle valve wide open, and thus the en ine is caused to run normally with the t rottle valve somewhat closed; this being necessary in order that there may be normally some difference between the steam ressure on the 'two sides of the throttle va ve, so that the cutoff will be made later in case the difference between the pressures on the two sides of the valve falls below normal.

The operation of this form of valve gear is as follows: Supposing the machine to be in o ration, in case itexceeds the normal spee to which the speed governor 15 is adjusted, said governor immediately closes the throttle valve 14 partly, so as to reduce the engine speed to normal; and the difierence in the steam. pressure on the two sides of the valve 14 being thereby made greater than normally, istou 22 iscausedto move upward gradual y, thus readjusting the link motion to give an earlier cutoff. As the cutoff grows earlier the overnor 15 automatically opens the thrott e valve 14 wider until, said throttle valve being at its normal opening and the point of cutoff correspondingly adjusted by the fluid-pressure-actuated adjusting device 20, the engine runs steadily under its reduced load and earlier cuto Should the speed of the engine fall below normal, the speed governor 15 0 nd the throttle valve wider than normal, t us raising the engines speed and at the same time making less than normal the difference be.

tween the pressures on the two sides of the throttle valve; the iston 22 being then drawn downward so t at the point of cutoff is made later; and as the speed of the engine gradually rises with the longer cutoff,

. determined by thev joint action of both ecthe throttle valve Ll is automatically closed until its normal degree of opening is reached.

In case the throttle valve is is operated by the weighted pressure governor 16, as it may be if the receiver pressure rises above or falls below normal, the cutoff adjusting device 20 operates in the same manner to adjust the cutofl to the new conditions under which the engine is running, the throttle valve being then shifted by the fluid pressure governor 16 t0 its-normal position.

Obviously the same speed and pressure governing mechanism, and the same cutoll adjusting mechanism, may be used for all the cylinders of a multi-oylinder engine. In Fig. 7 I have illustrated this in oonnection with a compresses of the so-called duplex type, both power cylinders of which are suppliedwith stesni 10171 the same pipe through the same throttle valve 1% operated by single speed governor 15 and a single pressure g vern-or 16; and a single cutofladjusting device :26 has its piston rod connected through suit-able links 33, shown, to rods 19, by Wl h the link valve motion is adjusted for different enrolls.

The same governing arrangement. is applicable to the various forms of drop cutoii' valve gear. In I ha ve shown the same adapted to one or the well. known types of Corliss valve gear, wherein the gov erning devicefill operates the rod Si by which. i'heposition of the tripping cams ot the Corliss valve gear is regulated, the same assaid rod and cams are ordinarily operated and adjusted by a fiy-ball governor. I do not illustrate in detail these tripping earns or the construction of the Corliss valve gem, as the 5211116 are well ii'nown to those skilled in the art.

The valve gears shown in Figs. 1, 2, l, 43,

. and 8 are shown as applied to engines having a main eccentric controlling admission and exhaust, and aso-called cutoii' centric, though the point 01" cut-oil uci'ua centrics. As shown in Tim El, end more clearly in the diagram, Fig. 4, the cutotl link 7 is pivoted at its lower end to the rocker 8, and therefore the block 'l' of this link when at the lower end thereof, is driven practically exclusi el by the main ecceu trio 11 by which the main valve 5 is driven. "When the cutofi block is at the lower eiul oi? the link, therefore, the cutoff is the longest. lVhen said block is at the upper end of the link, of the other hand, its motion is a resultnnt of the motions of the two eccentrics 11 and 12, eccentric 12 so modifying the actions of eccentric 11 that the cutofi is early.

By compounding the motion of the main eccentric with that of the cutoff eccentric 2.2, 7 n: able to obtain a much better valve eclion than is obtained from ordinary link niotions.

lated. mo e this valve gear is shown v-rh in the 3nd 11 is transi'nitted a n1otion-rever same as o hut ontolr is at the button i latest when :aid lwloclr is at lin in device, wherehy I: is avoided indiameter the pie n other source of under pressure with respect to which ine is to he underneath ihe I {Q guide rod p rise. thus an earlier cull. and coiiv-erseljv. ipressure underneath uizic red the Re to descend. l r i in fact, the equivalent pressure gown nor l6, oi Z, in l. said pressure go ernor in may the throttling gov nor in many cases;,

thongl it is often desirable to retain said presume governor 1% setting the in or to operate :it some liinil u pressure which it s not iltfil ed to ext-en )I'QFSlllB governor then twining a. salety uevice.

What I claim iv in an engine, the combination with variable cut-oil valve gear, and throttling governing means, ol outed-changing means, 0: uaied by differences in pressure on oppoa-sides said throttling means, for adjusting: the point of a'tuioll.

2. ln an engine. the conininationwith variable :uloii vaive gear. undthrottling governing i'neuns, of lluidircssure-uctouted nienns. connected to opposite sides of said throttling menus and arranged to luated av dill'ereinircs in pressure on opposite justing the point of cutoff, and having loading means to cause partial closing of said throttling means at loads below maximum, comprising means which increases the load as cutoff grows earlier.

5. In an engine, the combination with .variable cutoff valve gear, and throttling governing means, of cutoff-changing means, actuated by differences in pressure on opposite sides o-f said throttling means, for adjusting the point of cutoff, and having loading means to cause partial closing of said throttling means at loads below maximum, comprising a spring which increases the load as cutoff grows earlier.

6. In an engine, the combination with variable cutoff valve gear, and throttling governing means, of fluid-pressure-actuated means connected to opposite sides of said throttling means and arranged to be actuated by differences in pressure on opposite sides thereof, and connected to said valve gear to adjust the point of cutoff, and regulating means interposed between said fluidpressure-actuated means and said throttling means, whereby the change of cutoff is regulated.

T. In an engine, the combination with variable cutoff valve gear, and throttling governing means, of cutoff-changing means, actuated by differences in PIBSSL'HQ'. on opposite sides of said throttling means, for ad justing the point of cutoff, and regulating means therefor.

S. In an engine, the combination with variable cutoff valve gear, and throttling governing means, of cutoff-changing moans. actuated by differences in pressure on opposite sides of said throttling means, for adjusting the point of cutoff. and fllli(i-])1'fsure means preventing sudden fluctuatiims or changes in cutoff.

9. In an engine, the combination with iariuhlc cutoff valve gear, and throttling ,tgoverning' n'ieans, of means for adjiueting said valve gear comprising a cvlindcr and piston, oppiisite sides of said cylinder being connected to opposite sides of said throttling}; means,

it). in an engine, the no llllllillltlll with variable cutoff valve gear, and throttling governing means, of means for adjusting said valve gear comprising a cylinder an piston, and loading means tending to operate the same for a lon er cutoff, opposite sides of said cylinder ein connected to opposite sides of said thrott mg means.

11. In an engine, the combination .with variable cutoff valve gear, and throttling governing means, of means for adjusting said valve gear comprising a cylinder and piston, and loadin means tending to 0 erate the same for a onger cutofl, and inclhding means which increases the load as cutoff grows earlier, opposite sides of said cylinder connected to opposite sides of said thm tling means,

12. In an engine, the combination with variable cutoff valve gear, and throttling governing means, of means for adjustin said valve gear comprising a cylinder an piston, and loadin means tending to o 1'- ate the same for afonger cutoff, and inclil ing a spring which increases the load as the cutoff grows earlier, opposite sides of said cylinder being connected to opposite sides of said throttling means.

13. In an engine, the combination with variable cutoff valve gear, and throttling governing means, of means for adjusting said valve gear comprising a cylinder and piston, and means connectlng opposite ends of said cylinder to opposite sides of said throttling means comprising chambers of relatively large area as compared with the area of the ports connecting the same with said cylinder, interposed between the cylinderand said throttling means.

14. In an engine, the combination with variable cutoff valve gear comprising a block and link, and throttling governing means, of fluid-pressure actuated operating means, connected to opposite sides of said throttling means, and arranged to adjust said block with respect to said link to adjust the point of cutoff.

15. In an engine, the combination with valve gear comprising main and onto valves, and means for actuating the same comprising, for the cutoff valve, :1 block and link, and throttling governing means, of fluid-pressureactuated operating means, connected to opposite ofsaid throttling means, and arranged to adjust said block with respect to sa d link to adjust the point of cutoff.

10. In an engine, the combination with ariable cutoff valve goal. and throttling governing means, of cutoff-clninging means actuated by dillcrences inpressure on oppo' site sides of said throttling means, and comprising a cylinder and piston, opposite sides of said cylinder connected to opposite sides of Mid throttling gi'ivcrning means, and an aux liary "vlindcr having its nislon in op- It,0e2,534

erative connection with the piston of said first cylinder and ada )ted 'for connection to a source of supply of iluid under pressure.

17. A fluid pressure engine comprising in combination, an element for controlling the speed of the engine, and a second element controlled by the first element for varying the point of cut-01f in fixed relation to variations of pressure.

18. A fluid pressure engine comprising in combination, an element acting automatically to control the speed of the engine, a

second element controlled by the first element for varying the point of cut-off, and means constantly opened connecting said second element to the working-fluid-supply means of the engine, for communicating the pressure of the Working fluid to said second element.

19.. A fluid pressure engine comprising in combination, an automatic device for regulating the pressure of the entering fluid to controlethe s eed of the engine, and a supplementary evice operatedby pressure derived from fluid which has passed the automatic device for varying the cut-off in fixed relation tovaria'tions 0t pressure. I

20. Afluid pressure engine comprising in combination, a throttling device arranged to regulate the pressure of the entering fluid to control the speed, a cut-off valve, operating means therefor, a device operated by pressure derived from fluid which has passed the throttling device, and-connections therefrom to the operating means for the cut-oil valve arranged to vary the point of cut-oil with variations of pressure.

21. A fluid pressure engine comprising in combination, a throttling device arranged to regulate the pressure of the entering fluid to control the speed, a cut-oil Valve, actuating means therefor, connections from the actuating means to the cutoff valve, a device operated by pressure derived from fluid which has passed the throttling device and acting on the actuating connections to the cutoff valve, and arranged to vary the point of cutofi with variations of pressure.

2:2. A fluid pressure engine comprising in combination, an automatic governor arranged to regulate the pressure of theentering fluid tocontrol the speed under all loads, a cut-off valve, actuating means therefor, and means operated by pressure de rived from fluid which has passed the governor'and acting on the actuating means for the cut-oi? valve andarrangedto vary the points of cut-oil with variations; of iluid pressure.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature, in the presence of two witnes new omens F a. DAWL Witnesses: V v

Howann ilAYWOOD, H. M, MARBLE. 

